Adjective : foliated ornaments. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : foliate tracery. ,a foliate capital. From Dictionary.com.
It is rarely found as crystals, but is commonly found as what mineralogists describe as foliated masses. From Wordnik.com. [Molybdenum] Reference
Schist is a medium - to coarse-grained foliated rock. From Wordnik.com. [Metamorphic rock] Reference
The background is enchased with an elegant foliated design somewhat. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
Manuscripts are usually foliated, where each leaf is give a number. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
The terminations of the dripstones are foliated and stand out detached. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
Beneath the lunette runs a fine band of foliated ornament, including birds. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
Its lower edge is foliated, and the spandrils are enriched with quatrefoils. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
Two or three of the columns have richly foliated capitals, like the Corinthian. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
The gilt frames were much chipped but what remained of them was elaborately foliated. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
Specific geological knowledge (stratification, foliated structure) is therefore necessary. From Wordnik.com. [5.1 Rigid support in drifts and stopes] Reference
At the triforium base foliated brackets support vaulting shafts of three clustered columns. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
The division between each stall shows either a well-executed foliated ornament, or an angel. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
The notary executed a monstrous flourish at the bottom -- a foliated cross rising out of steps. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Near to the Cassy brass is an old chest, and a stone coffin with a foliated cross upon its lid. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
Some very fine foliated brackets can be seen in the arch between this chapel and the choir aisle. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
They were of red and black granite, and each was surmounted by a foliated encarpus of white marble. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
As they drove up, Alleyn glanced at the sign, a pleasant affair painted with a foliated green face. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
On the angles are shallow grooved foliated pilasters, and under the eaves a projecting dentil cornice. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The canopy supported by Corinthian columns of white marble, which are carved with foliated diaper pattern. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch] Reference
The shafts are detached from the wall; the central one is higher than the rest, and its capital is foliated. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
'The Greeks,' says Ruskin, 'gave the shaft, Rome gave the arch, the Arabs pointed and foliated the arch. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864] Reference
Think of spacetime as a series of spatial (three dimensional spaces) foliated like pages in a book within spacetime. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Matter: Still Dark.] Reference
Dozens of them seemed to be crawling here and there, in the sombre light, among the foliated sheets of intense green. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
Columns of great girth, bouquets of conventional stamens, ending in foliated capitals, supported by the lofty ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
They are foliated in places, the planes of schistosity being more or less parallel with the planes of bedding in the schists. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
The more sparsely foliated types often appear to have less blight on the nuts and leaves because of their exposure to the sunshine. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the sixth annual meeting Rochester, New York, September 1 and 2, 1915] Reference
It comprises a centre with wings, having openings with geometrical tracery and foliated mouldings, surmounted by an elegant cresting. From Wordnik.com. [Ely Cathedral] Reference
Immediately after the fire in 1292, the work was started, and the jambs with their slender shafts and foliated capitals were erected. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
Clusters of small, dark birds sang from the tall, thinly foliated trees, and gray squirrels chased each other up and down their branches. From Wordnik.com. [Stone of Tears]
Dikes of igneous rocks may be followed into a region where they have been foliated by pressure. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
Of the rocks observed, by far the greater number are foliated basic eruptives, -- schists and gneisses. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Labrador Trail] Reference
The rock does not contain hornblende, but great crystals of foliated olivine, which have a triple cleavage. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
Traditional foliated scrollwork, with parrots and lion-headed serapendiyas (mythical creatures), appear on the front and side panels. From Wordnik.com. [Kottu] Reference
Its peculiarity is columns with foliated capitals, and still greater height, about ten diameters, with a more ornamented entablature. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
Lithologies are generally well foliated with a southeasterly direction, except for the more massive, unfoliated granites and pegmatites. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
GNEISS is the general name under which are comprised coarsely foliated rocks banded with irregular layers of feldspar and other minerals. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
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